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Autopulse Would Reduce the Mortality Rates in Rural Victoria

... heart attacks than their counterparts who live in urban areas. Statistics show that heart disease mortal...0 % higher in men and 21 % higher in women than in urban areas. But the solution to this problem cannot be tackled by increasing the number of ambulance serv...

Ultraviolet B (UVB) Radiation Reduces Risk of 16 Types of Cancer in U.S.

...10 cancer sites, alcohol consumption with 9 sites, urban residence with 7, and Hispanic heritage with 6. “This study provides important additional support for the vitamin D/cancer hypothesis” according to William Grant. This new study shows that the approach used, a statistical comparison of cancer morta...

Bayer to Market Biocon Insulin in China

...s is rapidly spreading in China, especially in the urban areas. About 40 million Chinese suffer from diabetes currently, with an estimated 3,000 new cases reported every day," the statement said. According to Biocon chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Insugen had already achieved critical mass in the Indian...

New Preventive Strategy to Fight Childhood Obesity

... Army Armor Center in Ft. Knox, Ky. ‘Typically, urban areas are the focus of this kind of programming,’ Sharma says, ‘but we chose this area because rural areas do not have a lot of health education programs and the need there is much greater.’ ‘Part of the problem is that children are becoming more sed...

Stress and Pollution are Major Cause of Infertility Among Urban Couples

...wo of the main causes of growing infertility among urban couples, say doctors treating patients unable to conceive// normally. "Worldwide, one in every six couples has difficulty in conceiving. About 50 percent of the infertility problems is contributed by the male factor. But stress and environmental p...

AIDS shadow looms over Bhilai plant

.... It is based on blood samples collected at the 16 urban centres - Bhilai, Durg, Rajnandgaon, Bilaspur, Raipur, Janjgir, Korba, Dhamtari, Kanker, Jagdalpur, Surguja, Jashpur, Mahasamund, Raigarh, Koria and Kawardha. According to the document, the state recorded 36 new confirmed cases of AIDS during the f...

Three-year-old AIDS Patient Awaits Death

...d the confirmed AIDS cases were reported only from urban areas and they did not have figures from the vast rural belt that lacks basic infrastructure like government hospitals and centres to test blood samples. In May, UNAIDS said there were an estimated 5.7 million Indians living with the disease at the...

Angola Warned of Recurrent Cholera Outbreaks

...vily used rivers flowing through densely populated urban areas into ancient, broken tankers for distribution throughout the city. Following the end of the 27-year civil war in 2002 Luanda’s population has exploded to between 4 and 7 million. Godley said, "A great majority of people have no access to gover...

Environmental Factors Leads to Obesity in Rural Communities

...nd practitioners from the fields of public health, urban planning and transportation collaborating to design communities that encourage a healthy lifestyle, she adds. About a quarter of the population in the South and Midwest live in rural towns. Obesity and a more sedentary lifestyle are more common in ...

Suicide Has No Age Bar

...f-harm cases and also planning and designing safer urban neighborhoods. Canterbury Suicide Project leader and associate professor Annette Beautrais said that the youth male suicide rate have halved considerably over a period of time. Slowly news media organizations, some coroners and families of suicide vi...

Alarming Rise of Diabetes in Rural India - Survey Reports

... highlighted the escalating problem of diabetes in urban India however, high quality information about health in rural areas is scarce. While the villages enrolled in this study are more developed than many rural regions, these results clearly indicate the new health problems that much of rural India will ...

Uganda Shows Increased HIV Discordant Couples

... in polygamous unions as well as more common among urban couples than their rural counterparts. Kampala reported a higher number of discordant couples than in other regions. In addition Kampala had 5.1 of their couples with an HIV negative man, compared to 2.3, which had an HIV- negative woman. The Wes...

Protected Environment v/s Unprotected Affect Hygiene Health Immunity

...ts, the researchers trapped wild rats in rural and urban settings in North Carolina and trapped wild mice in Wisconsin. They then measured the levels of antibodies in the blood of the wild rodents and compared the levels to those observed in mice and rats housed in Duke animal facilities. All of the wil...

Rural Poor are Better off Than Slum Dwellers: UN Report

...As the locus of poverty shifts from rural areas to urban centres, UN-HABITAT's "State of the World's Cities...tion and have fewer chances of employment than the urban residents who do not reside in a slum. The report shows that there are remarkable similarities bet...

Drug addiction higher in rural Punjab: study

... smack (brown sugar). The study - which surveyed urban and rural youth, both illiterate and educated, between the ages of 16 and 35 - said the intake of drugs was higher among rural youth primarily due to unemployment in those areas. It attributed the high levels of addiction to poverty, lack of awaren...

Coca Cola To Enhance Production Of Diet Coke

... increased demand for the product, particularly in urban markets. // Though diet coke contributes just one per cent of the company's total softdrink production, Coca Cola is looking to come out with a new package, considering the demand from customers, Coca Cola India, Area Operations Director Ashok Nam...

US Teens turn Wiser to Risky Behavior

...a from surveys conducted in 40 states and 21 large urban school districts. According to Wechsler the number of high school students that engage in risky health behavior such tobacco and alcohol use, sexual activity, and rash motor vehicle driving. There has been a dramatic increase in seatbelt use. The...

Caretakers Don’t Use Blood Pressure Drugs Regularl

...ence with prescribed medications in a group of 295 urban patients in a public clinic diagnosed with high blood pressure in the year before the study began. Interviewers collected self reports of medication use as well as lifestyle details by phone between January and August 2005. According to Krousel-Woo...

In Jiangsu, Overweight Problem Aroused

...chool-age students and finds that 25.7 per cent of urban school-age students are above average weight. Sheng, a researcher from Sports Science Research Institute, Jiangsu has made a survey says ‘the excess weight has certainly affected the children's physical health’. He added that obesity can also l...

The new urban exercise hazard: pollution!

...lge in cycling, jogging or walking near sources of urban air pollution, you might have to do a rethink. Is it beneficial or hazardous?// According to an environmentalist exhaust and smoke from buses, cars etc can damage a person's health. The principle being this danger is expressed by Dr. Joseph T. C...

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